Hey now, Don't label all of us chemists just because this guy's a whacko. I'll fix your statement for you:

"Lovelock is a whacko, not a climatologist, and his hypothesis is clearly a whackos view."

Asmov went on a small rant on this very subject years ago in a short novelette called The Dead Past.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dead_Past

The opposite of a live pigeon shoot is a clay pigeon shoot.

Having been on a few, They were probably a bunch of father/son teams out tromping around, and as usual making too much noise to flush anything in range. Especially if they were running around on quads like the article hinted at. Pigeons are remarkably stupid birds though.

God I wish I had mod points!

Oh so very, very wrong. Your troll-fu is weak.

Use whatever label you will, but dressing up (in costumes or in your favorite dungaree's), arming yourself (Be it with rope & Pistol, or a can of pepper spray), and then roaming the streets looking for trouble: It's still vigilanteism. From Merriam: a member of a volunteer committee organized to suppress and punish crime summarily. Notice the word "Suppress". From Dictionary.com: 1. a member of a vigilance committee. (vigilance: Watchfulness).

I'll give you that it does strongly *Conotate* revenge and lawlessness as a salve though.

In my day, they were called vigilante militias.

But this is the internet and I want my shiny NOW! I'm going to forget about this in 5 min...

Me too. I thought: Boy, this out to be even more "Fair and Balanced" than Fox!

IIRC it's part of the PDF standard.